Call for Submissions for the online folio
Tender Masculinities
Edited by Jude Marr
What is an online folio? This will be a collection of related works to be published on the Purple Ink website based on the theme of tender masculinities.
Tender and masculine are not concepts often seen together nevertheless, tenderness is also a part of masculinity. The overarching message of our culture is that there is only one kind of masculinity: a brutal, sometimes violent, stoic, cold, ego-driven version that makes a joke out of everything. The truth is there are many versions of what is masculine. We invite you to explore what is tender. We are not sure what we will end up with and are excited to see your work.
Interpret the theme however you like. We want to feature surprising and unexpected moments. This call is open to everyone and can be about a personal experience or about someone you know. It can be about a father, a mother who was both mother and father, or stepping into your own tender masculinity. Surprise us!
There is no fee to submit, but we would appreciate a tip. It helps us to feature unexpected work and underrepresented poets and authors. This call closes on October 31st.
Don’t be shy. We are excited to read your work.
We are excited to have Jude Marr on board as the editor for this folio.
About Jude
Jude Marr (he, him) is a Pushcart-nominated trans poet, editor and teacher. Jude’s full-length collection, We Know Each Other By Our Wounds, came out from Animal Heart Press in 2020, and he liked the press so much that he now works with them as an editor. Jude’s work has also appeared in many journals and anthologies, most recently Ghost City, Cutleaf, Reed Magazine, and Masculinity: An Anthology of Modern Voices (Broken Sleep Books, 2023.) Born in the UK, Jude lived in the US for ten years and is now planning a move to Portugal in 2025. Contact Jude via his website, judemarr.com
Guidelines:
- Submissions must be the author’s original work.
- We are not accepting translations at the moment.
- Please, no lyrics unless it is your original work. We do not publish work with outside lyrics. Why? Because permissions are needed for each lyric, and this is often very expensive.
- Poetry submit up to 4 poems. Please submit all your poems in one document.
- Please title your submission file: Firstname_Lastname_Genre (ex: Jane_Doe_Poetry)
- Visual artists can include up to 3 pieces per submission in jpeg format, under 7MB. If accepted, we will request a hi-res version.
- Works of prose may be up to 5,000 words per submission.
- All work must not have been previously published online or in print to be eligible. This includes being published in blogs or on social media.
- Simultaneous submissions are welcome. Please notify us if any of your poems are accepted for publication elsewhere.
- A bio of 80 words or less must be included with your submission.
- A Word document is the preferred format. PDFs will also be accepted
- Don’t be shy. We are excited to read your work.
- Submissions close on October 31st.
